Of course, like the next guy, I’m very much in favor of aliens dropping down and sucking every bit of body fluid out of Trump’s rotten carcus, but I’m not blind to the possiblity that Agata simply just didn’t see Turdball’s hand… or perhaps European diplomacy urges lady’s first?

In eastern Europe it’s typically men to men and ladies to ladies then men to ladies. Often, diplomatic protocol suggests the same thing. Handshakes and kisses have their own protocol as well, depending on where you are. So… this probably wasn’t a real snub.

But that look on Trump’s face is priceless. Clearly he expected to be greeted first, before Melania. White House protocol people obviously didn’t do their job, or failed to do their job. Once again proving that this administration is full of fucking stupid people who don’t know shit.

The BBC reports that Kornhauser-Duda “inadvertently” snubbed Trump without attributing “inadvertent”. Maybe it was inadvertent. Maybe it was entirely appropriate and a local custom that Trump was unaware of. Maybe she froze that glowing tar sponge intentionally.

There’s an interesting between-the-lines history of media (even hostile media) having to fill in editorial blanks with events around Trump and especially things he says. On the campaign trail, you’d never have guessed the digressive, plainly scatterbrained speech patterns if you read the neat little quotes in the AP and major papers.

After all, if you have to put four ellipses in a sentence, it’s unreadable. So take them out, right? Just glue together a sane sentence from the words he uttered and make do.

Likewise with TV: you use the soundbite that has meaning, avoiding the pillheaded drivel either side of it to slice out four seconds that, with careful intro and outro talk from your anchors, refers to something politically germane. I remember several news report where the anchor literally said half a sentence and then cut to Trump to finish it.

But it’s almost unavoidable that this is done. It’s a psychological process, where our minds have to fill in blanks to create something sensible, and it can only be described in terms of what’s added. Sometimes Trump’s almost like an impressionist painting or an optical illusion: variously a mess of paint or crude biological hack that forces the human mind to try and create coherency and meaning.